Christabel Ligami, The East African The biting shortage of vaccines for childhood killer diseases that has hit public hospitals across the country is a pointer to the challenges facing Kenya’s health sector. From perennial procurement flaws to a shortage of hospital staff to faltering research projects, the...
UN News Centre 17 June 2011 –The United Nations is set to unveil a report highlighting the vital work of midwives in ensuring that millions of women and newborn children do not die needlessly at a time when many countries still lack enough skilled staff to...
Geena Wardaki, ONE Blog You probably already heard the good news this week, but public and private donors committed a total of $4.3 billion from now until 2015 in support of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). This means GAVI and its partners are...
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Rhona MacDonald, PLoS Medicine Community Blog Given the current economic climate, the sight of countries trying to outbid each other in their generosity to pledge money for vaccines at the first ever GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) “pledging” conference in London on 13th June...
Bill Roedy, Huffington Post During my 20-year tenure as the Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International, I witnessed the ability of music to inspire hope and transform lives around the globe. Whether it was broadcasting U2's concert in Sarajevo a few years after the civil...
The Economist GLOBAL-HEALTH experts are often a glum lot, but a few billion dollars should be enough to perk anybody up. Over the past decade the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), founded with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has become...
Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Vaccinating children around the world against infectious diseases has saved the lives of millions over the past several decades. Now new opportunities exist to overcome remaining challenges, according to articles in the June 2011 issue of Health Affairs, Strategies For The...
Mike Henry, ONE Blog For months now, we’ve been asking our ONE members to give it all they have on our vaccine campaign. We asked our members to use every advocacy tool and skill they had to make sure that we won this important fight to...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk As the only qualified provider of healthcare for nearly 5,000 people in rural Madagascar, 29-year-old paramedic Hantamalala Ramanandraibe is hardly short of job satisfaction. It is sleep she lacks. Yet pressure is about to increase on Ramanandraibe, who is paid 300,000 ariary ($150) per...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
